mouse causing interference with onboard audio

[Angilion]

My new build has onboard audio which is pretty good and I was intending to stick with it, but I'm getting a bit of buzzing which I've narrowed down to mouse movement. I'm not using the front panel connectors (which seem to be more of a problem in this respect) and I've tried a couple of USB ports in case it was some oddity regarding one of them.

Am I right in thinking that the only practical solution is a soundcard?

 

[Angilion]

Well, obviously it isn't that good if it tracks mouse movement...

Well, good apart from that The sound quality is very good...as long as I don't move the mouse. I found another "feature" later - loading images on a website causes buzzing too. Only images, which is rather odd. Oh, and HDD use. I was wondering why the HDD was louder in my new PC, but initially thought it was the new HDD or the new case. It isn't. It's the onboard sound.

Yeah, not that good

Isn't the first time I've read about this problem with integrated sound card.

It's the first time I've used it, but searching online returned about a bazillion posts about it.

Depending on signal routing on motherboad front connector pin header might (maybe) have cleaner signal...
But that connector wiring of case sure can have its own effects.

The gist of the posts I read was that the front connector is usually worse.

Separate sound card is definitely the best for avoiding problems of motherboads integrated.
Myself never used integrated sound cards so haven't had chance to "enjoy" all these various interference problems.
You using headphones or speakers?

Headphones. I have neighbours and thin walls.

I think I'll go back to the old X-Fi card I was using in my previous PC. I was hoping someone here knew a fix. A long shot, but worth a go.

 

[Angilion]

All the "classics".
Scrolling web page might also cause noise...

Not if I use the scroll wheel. A win for the onboard sound!

What's the motherboard with winner design?

Gigabyte Z97-D3H-CF

Actually one user had motherboard with integrated sound card's rear outputs having lots of interference with lot less of it when using front connectors of case.
But unless you're using PC just for listening music why are you even wanting to play in stereo?

Because in my experience surround sound headphones are worse than decent stereo headphones and aren't really surround sound anyway.

I have a proper surround sound setup, speaker set, amp, subwoofer. But I also have neighbours and thin walls, so I don't use it out of consideration for them.

Though not having everything sound sucktastic requires at least decent headphones...

Yes, it does. So I bought the best I could within my budget after spending quite a lot of time reading as many reviews as possible of as many headphones as possible within my budget.